Creatures of Elemental: Hordes of the Fallen

Creatures of Elemental: Hordes of the Fallen

The Fallen are made up of many different races and creatures. Some of these creatures are sentient (or semi-sentient). Some are mindless and others, while lacking sentience have a cunning that makes them lethal.

This is by no means a complete list of Fallen creatures.

Trolls. Huge, powerful, stupid. Powerful sorcerers can charm them.

Edars. Rare but powerful Edars are incredibly dangerous with their elemental magic. Can be recruited – for a price.

Umderdroths. The Dread lady Umber bred these lethal killing machines as pets. Can be tamed by powerful channelers.

Daemons. No other way to classify these nightmarish creatures. Created by the Titans, they may be immortal.

Dire Wolves.

Dire Bears

Sions. Powerful users of a very specific magic. They can be recruited.

Nice. I'd love to know more about the Sions; I like the artwork for the daemons. Are some of these creatures going to be environmental specific? Some only found in deserts, some in swamps, some only in forrests? Maybe a stupid question, if it is just ignore me and or call me names.

The random world name generator of Elemental has suggested the following: Saseruu; Lagnaplur; Ireq; Soodehul; Saecrand; Rippawii and Iran. I vote for "Swamp Behemoth" but I suck at naming. In Stargate Atlantis I'd be naming Puddle Jumpers as Gateships.

Incidentally, it has not been named yet so feel free to suggest names.

I shall name it a "Bog Wolf".

The stories of "The wolves of the bog" are a common camp fire tale used to scare young kids. Creatures lives in the swamps. Anyone traveling around swamplands late at night become their prey. No one has managed to survive once they become their prey. Victims who ran to the "relative safety" of a nearby town only serve to doom the town itself. Only a rare few managed to escape these towns before their destruction. Those who make it far into dry land tell of creatures hiding in the shadows that came from the bogs. They can be reconized by their wolf like figure, and their glowing red eyes.

Ofcourse, very few men have got a good look at them let alone those who have survived an encounter. Who could blame them for any inaccuracies. Most people expect them to have fur, and howl at the moon.

Still, the name "Bog Wolf" is plenty descriptive. Anyone who hears their name can expect that these things live in water, and can hunt like wolves.

All of these creatures look excellent! Just the kind of atmosphere we needy gamers expect from our fantasy worlds

Is it safe to assume the races of men will also have some analogues, or in the tradition of GalCiv2 their own crazy powerful beasties? Because otherwise, it might be hard for me to stop my Umberdroths and Sions from running amok in the world...

Are these Fallen single species, or are there different subtypes in each category (i.e. different elements of Edars)? And are all these critters evil, or are there some available to good factions as well.

The Edar also looks cool, but I see an opportunity. The wingless wing-structure. A common trope used to make bad things look extra-cool, they don't actually make sense (except on reanimated formerly winged things). Buuut... what if they were actual attack / movement limbs? Like spider legs, or Kerrigans extras in Starcraft? If nothing else, that would let you create some sick running animations for the Edar (as they used their alternate limb set to move unexpectedly quickly - and possibly also over otherwise impassable terrain)

The Edar also looks cool, but I see an opportunity. The wingless wing-structure. A common trope used to make bad things look extra-cool, they don't actually make sense (except on reanimated formerly winged things). Buuut... what if they were actual attack / movement limbs? Like spider legs, or Kerrigans extras in Starcraft? If nothing else, that would let you create some sick running animations for the Edar (as they used their alternate limb set to move unexpectedly quickly - and possibly also over otherwise impassable terrain)

What makes you so sure there aren't any wings? I'm imagining anything from magical membranes to unclear drawing to feathers/skin unfurling from around the spines.... although using them as legs would be a nice touch as well

For the large swamp animal I would go with a shortened version of Ōsanshōuo (this is the Japanese name for the gaint salamanders of that country which can grow up to 5ft long). How about naming this creature an Osan?

Not only do I think this would be a cool name it would also be a small tribute to an incredible animal that is being pressured by humanity.

I decided to whip something up seeing as no backgrounds have been made available for Elemental. Frogboy, would you please whip the graphic designers to make them crank out some desktop backgrounds? Also, give them a raise while you're at it, they do a phenomenal job.